Welcome to Visit Port Solent Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Port Solent
Visit Port Solent places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Port Solent places to visit. A unique way to experience Port Solent’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Port Solent as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Port Solent Walkfo Preview The Port Solent development was built during the 1980s on reclaimed land between Horsea Island and the southern shoreline of Paulsgrove in Portsmouth Harbour. Facilities for residents and visitors include a multiscreen cinema, health club, restaurants and shops along a precinct known as The Boardwalk. The marina is owned and managed by Premier Marinas. When you visit Port Solent, Walkfo brings Port Solent places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Port Solent Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Port Solent
Visit Port Solent – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 51 audio plaques & Port Solent places for you to explore in the Port Solent area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Port Solent places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Port Solent with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Port Solent places with Walkfo Port Solent to hear history at Port Solent’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Port Solent has 51 places to visit in our interactive Port Solent map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Port Solent, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Port Solent places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Port Solent & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 51 audio facts unique to Port Solent places in an interactive Port Solent map you can explore.”
Walkfo Port Solent tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Port Solent
Best Port Solent places to visit
Port Solent has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Port Solent’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Port Solent’s information audio spots:
Tipner Tipner is a residential district of Portsmouth, located on the north western corner of Portsea Island . It includes a housing estate, built during the 1930s, that used to function as married quarters for the Royal Navy . It is bounded to the north and west by the M275 motorway and Tipner Lake .
Fort Widley Fort Widley is one of the forts built on top of Portsdown Hill between 1860 and 1868. It was designed to protect Portsmouth from attack from the rear.
Hilsea Hilsea is a district of the city of Portsmouth in the English county of Hampshire. Located at the northern end of Portsea Island, for most of its history Hilsea was a small hamlet on the Portsmouth to London road. The name “Hilsea” probably means ‘holly island’ The last working farm in Portsmouth was located in the area up to the 1990s.
Hilsea Lines Hilsea Lines are a line of 18th- and 19th-century fortifications built at Hilsea to protect the northern approach to Portsea Island, an island off the southern coast of England. They are now used as a greenspace and leisure area, also known locally as Foxes Forest.
Mountbatten Centre The Mountbatten Centre is a leisure centre in Portsmouth, England, which opened in 1979. It is located in Hilsea, an area in Portsmouth.
Portus Adurni Portus Adurni was a Roman fort in the Roman province of Britannia. It is the best-preserved Roman fort north of the Alps. It was later converted into a medieval castle known as Portchester Castle.
Portsdown Hill The highest point of the hill lies within Fort Southwick at 131m above sea level. The ridge offers good views to the south over Portsmouth, the Solent, Hayling Island and Gosport, with the Isle of Wight beyond. The hill is formed from an inlier of chalk brought to the surface by an east–west upfold of the local strata known as the Portsdown Anticline.
Fort Southwick Fort Southwick is one of the forts found on Portsdown Hill, which overlooks the naval base of Portsmouth in the county of Hampshire.
Southwick House Southwick House is a Grade II listed 19th-century manor house of the Southwick Estate in Hampshire. It is home to the Defence School of Policing and Guarding and related military police capabilities.
Visit Port Solent plaques
8 plaques herePort Solent has 8 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Port Solent plaques audio map when visiting. Plaques like National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened – and Walkfo’s AI has researched additional, deeper content when you visit Port Solent using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Port Solent plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Port Solent audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Port Solent allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Port Solent’s 51 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Port Solent freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Port Solent Map App
Our visit Port Solent map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Port Solent & surrounding areas using the Walkfo digital audio tour guide app. Each spot has plaque, building, street or area information on history, culture or tourism.
You can set your Walkfo’s Port Solent tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Port Solent centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Port Solent area at LONG:-1.1, LAT:50.842.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Port Solent, go to your App Store to search for “Walkfo” or follow a links below and install on your mobile phone. Walkfo is designed for use with headphones or AirPods, so you can walk & explore whilst learning about the things around you without digital distraction.
Things to do & visit in Port Solent / surrounding areas
● Buckland, Portsmouth ● Charles Dickens’ Birthplace Museum ● Rudmore ● North End, Hampshire ● Portsmouth International Port ● HMS King Alfred (shore establishment 1994) ● Whale Island, Hampshire ● Tipner ● HMS Excellent (shore establishment) ● Stamshaw ● Purbrook Heath ● Fort Widley ● Queen Alexandra Hospital ● Cosham ● Wymering ● Portsmouth Harbour ● DM Gosport ● Pewit Island (Portsmouth Harbour) ● UTC Portsmouth ● Hilsea ● Portsbridge Creek ● Hilsea Barracks ● Hilsea Lines ● Hilsea Lido ● Tipner Lake ● Alexandra Park, Portsmouth ● Sails of the South ● Portsmouth Airport (Hampshire) ● Mountbatten Centre ● Port Solent
● Paulsgrove ● Paulsgrove F.C. ● Portsdown ● A.F.C. Portchester ● Southwick, Hampshire ● Portchester ● Portus Adurni ● Trafalgar Wharf, Portsmouth ● Portchester Castle ● Nelson Monument, Portsdown Hill ● Fort Nelson, Hampshire ● Portsdown Hill ● Fort Southwick ● HMS Dryad (establishment) ● Southwick House ● St James Church, Southwick ● HMS Bristol (D23) ● Drayton, Hampshire ● Wymering Manor
Getting to / around Port Solent – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Port Solent using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Port Solent places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Port Solent Public Transport Stations
Port Solent Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Farlington Halt railway station
Cosham railway station
Hilsea railway station
Paulsgrove Halt railway station
Portchester railway station
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Local Port Solent historians & Port Solent tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Port Solent? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Port Solent’s places, attractions & landmarks ability to create their own unique outdoor audio museums & using our simple & easy to use Walkfo Creator. – Creating a new audio experience for your Port Solent place is free* and quick (15+ minutes if you prepare text content) to use, with Walkfo Creator doing the hard work of generating AI audio files for geo-spots from the text you provide with a simply click on a map. – The 100 Amazing Port Solent Places is just one example of an outdoor museum created using Walkfo Creator (pictured to the left) for people to safely explore during Covid-19 times whilst visiting a city. Our tool is open to tourism organisations, travel destinations & National Trust locations to create their own audio walks to offer free when people visit Port Solent destinations. – Walkfo itself is looking to partner with websites offering things-to-do / what’s on events listings to enhance the content of our ‘visit-Port Solent’ web pages (for example: www.visitPort Solent.com). If you are interested in partnering, please contact us to discuss options.
* Walkfo Creator is free to use for a limited number of audio spots within a map with a license fee applicable when more than 20 audio spots within location walk are created. v1.1336
Visit Port Solent places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Port Solent places to visit. A unique way to experience Port Solent’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Port Solent as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Port Solent places with Walkfo Port Solent to hear history at Port Solent’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Port Solent has 51 places to visit in our interactive Port Solent map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Port Solent, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Port Solent places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Port Solent & the surrounding areas.
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Trying to encourage visitors to Port Solent?